Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20jan2007
Texas: An Efficient, Portable Persistent Store, by Vivek Singhal, Sheetal Kakkad, and Paul Wilson. “Texas is a persistent storage system for C++, providing high performance while emphasizing simplicity, modularity and portability. A key component of the design is the use of pointer swizzling at page fault time, which exploits existing virtual memory features to implement large address spaces efficiently on stock hardware, with little or no change to existing compilers.”
OpenSSL Documentation, online.
Nees and Vos made a transcript of the iPhone ring tone.
I don’t care just what they say
‘Cause forever I will pray
You and I will be as free
As the birds up in the trees
Oh, please stay by me, Diana
— Paul Anka, Diana
Fork is a a general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. There are a few bonus lines of code specifically for use with Ruby on Rails but Fork can be happily used outside of Rails also.
The Purloined Sirloin: Why is meat the most shoplifted item in America?, by Brendan I. Koerner.
In The Good Old Summertime: 1900-1909, by oldwinebottle. “Standing on the threshold of the 20th century, the world seemed so young and carefree.”
Digging Deep: Mixing it up (or in) with Modules, by Gregory Brown. “This new series, digging deep, will be targeted towards the more experienced developer, or at least folks who want to know a little more about some deeper concepts in Ruby.”
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
— Bob Dylan, Lay, Lady, Lay
Second R6RS draft published, looks like they are making good progress.
USGS Earthquake Data from Lisp, John Wiseman found out how to.
I’ve Read Your Horoscope and You’re No Hacker, WJW. And I’d even qualify!!